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Updated December 22, 2023, 11:57 a.m. ET
Police in the Czech Republic on Friday released intense body camera footage showing officers at Prague University immediately after the scene of the country's deadliest mass shooting on Thursday.
Officers can be seen moving through the building with guns drawn and shouting, tending to injured students in classrooms. At some point they break through a door that was barricaded with chairs and desks.
In a heartbreaking scene, officers carry an injured victim out of the building as she can be heard moaning in pain.
At least 14 people died and 25 others were injured, the Czech police chief said at a news conference on Thursday evening, revising an earlier figure that said there were 15 dead and at least 30 injured.
Local media identified the suspect as David Kozák, 24, a student at the school where he caused terror, police said.
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Police in the Czech Republic have released intense body camera footage showing officers at Prague University immediately after the scene of the country's deadliest mass shooting.
Officers can be seen moving through the building with guns drawn and shouting, tending to injured students in classrooms. At some point they break through a door that was barricaded with chairs and desks.
In a heartbreaking scene, officers carry an injured victim out of the building as she can be heard moaning in pain.
The dead gunman's body can also be seen as police officers search the balcony of the Charles University building where he murdered 14 of his fellow students and injured dozens more on Thursday afternoon.
Czech police break through the door of a classroom.Czech police
Police officers find the shooter's body on the balcony of the building.Czech police
Bodycam footage shows first-responding police officers tending to critically injured students in a classroom.Czech police
Sandra Lee and her boyfriend Ben Youcef escaped from the mass shootings in Prague.Facebook/Sandra Lee
Sandra Lee felt safe after Thursday's mass shooting at a university in Prague that left at least 14 people dead.
Lee revealed on Facebook that she and her boyfriend Ben Youcef were not in danger during their trip – but were close to the massacre.
“Ben and I left Prague,” she wrote. “We are safe, but it is shocking how fast the world can turn.”
“We were less than three blocks from the shooting scene.”
The infamous chef wrote on Instagram that she and Youcef visited Prague because she was “25% Czech” and that she wanted to visit the country.
Lee and Youcef visited the country that she said on Instagram was on her list of places to visit.Instagram/Sandra Lee
Lee said she and her boyfriend were three blocks from the scene of the shooting.Instagram/Sandra Lee
People place candles near the scene of a shooting at Charles University in central Prague. MARTIN DIVISEK/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
A woman lights candles in front of the Faculty of Arts building at Charles University in downtown Prague.AP
At least 14 people were present in Thursday's mass shooting.AP
A photo circulating on X shows the weapon used in the mass shooting in Prague, according to a weapons researcher shared it.
“The weapon used by the perpetrator appears to be a civilian 5.56mm AR-15 platform rifle with a scope,” wrote @war_noir.
A photo circulating on X shows the weapon used in the mass shooting in Prague.
Police announced on Thursday, a few hours after the horrific incident, that the suspected shooter legally owned several firearms.
New night photos show the evacuation of students after a mass shooting at Prague's Charles University that killed 14 people on Thursday.
Authorities had said 15 victims were dead, but revised the death toll to 14 around 9 p.m. local time (3 p.m. EST).
Charles University students are evacuated from the filming location in Prague.Getty Images
14 people were shot and dozens injured in a university building in central Prague.Getty Images
Paramedics load a stretcher into an ambulance at the scene.Getty Images
Police confirmed the gunman was dead shortly after the horrific attack on Thursday afternoon.Getty Images
Authorities said on Thursday evening local time that they had received information about the suspected gunman in the deadly mass shooting before he caused terror at Charles University.
Police received a tip that he was on his way to Prague from his hometown of Hostouň – just a 30-minute drive from the Czech city – and was planning to take his own life, CNN reported.
Czech police chief Martin Vondrasek (left) and Czech Interior Minister Vit Rakusan (center) speak to the media after the mass shooting in downtown Prague.AP
Police knew that the 24-year-old was giving a lecture at the university at 2 p.m. local time (8 a.m. EST) and evacuated the building where that course was supposed to take place, Czech police chief Martin Vondrášek said in a press conference.
He added that they then received a call about a shooting at another campus building.
Prague police said the gunman who killed 15 people at the university he attended was found dead on a balcony – and they described the suspect in disturbing terms.
The terrible event was “well thought out, a terrible act,” Prague police chief Martin Vondrasek said on Thursday, according to British publication The Independent.
Police also said they believed the 24-year-old had killed his father earlier in the day and was planning to kill himself.
He legally owned several guns and was an excellent student, police added.
Czech police say 24-year-old David Kozak allegedly killed his own father before fatally shooting at least 15 people at Charles University in Prague.novinky.cz
It is not yet known whether the gunman was shot by police or himself, while officials said there was “no indication he had an accomplice.”
The gunman who opened fire at Charles University in Prague reportedly killed his father before the mass shooting.
The 24-year-old gunman's father was found dead on Thursday, the Independent reported, citing a Czech journalist who spoke to police.
Video circulating online shows Charles University students jumping out of windows to escape the shooter:
The unidentified suspect in a mass shooting at a school in Prague was a university student, the local police chief said.
At least 15 people were confirmed dead, police added.
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